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Women and Islam - Myths, Apologies, and the Limits of Feminist Critique (Paperback)
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Muslim women of all ages, economic status, educational backgrounds,
sexual orientations, and from different parts of historically
Muslim countries suffer the kinds of atrocities that violate common
understandings of human rights and are normally denounced as
criminal or pathological, yet these actions are sustained because
they uphold some religious doctrine or some custom blessed by local
traditions. Ironically, while instances of abuse meted out to women
and even female children are routine, scholarship about Muslim
women in the post 9/11 era has rarely focused attention on them,
preferring to speak of women's agency and resistance. Too few
scholars are willing to tell the complicated, and at times
harrowing, stories of Muslim women's lives. Women and Islam: Myths,
Apologies, and the Limits of Feminist Critique radically rethinks
the celebratory discourse constructed around Muslim women's
resistance. It shows instead the limits of such resistance and the
restricted agency given women within Islamic societies. The book
does not center on a single historical period. Rather, it is
organized as a response to five questions that have been central to
upholding the 'resistance discourse': What is the impact of the
myth of al-Andalus on a feminist critique? What is the feminist
utility of Edward Said's theory of Orientalism? Is Islam compatible
with a feminist agenda? To what extent can Islamic institutions,
such as the veil, be liberating for women? Will the current Arab
uprisings yield significant change for Muslim women? Through
examination of these core questions, Bouachrine calls for a shift
in the paradigm of discourse about feminism in the Muslim world.
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